If you attended the Retro Indie Market at the Boynton Woman’s Club Saturday, February 2, you might have noticed something. The crowds of recent years have thinned, ever so slightly. This is not to cast aspersions on the Retro Indie Market or on Michelle Parparian and Amanda Linton, the organizers…
It’s totally cool that one of the wildest eating and drinking days of the year has ties in religion, but Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, has those roots. The holiday, which is celebrated in the days leading up to Ash Wednesday, was created basically to gouge yourself in the rich,…
Bacon Fest, the all-things-porky event that’s coming to the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek on Saturday, February 23, has announced its restaurant and food lineup — and it’s nothing short of spectacular.For one evening and one evening only, forget your sodium and cholesterol intake and go crazy on nature’s pig candy…
Over-the-top fair and festival food is one of the great American art forms. But instead of dealing in deep-fried butter and chocolate-covered scorpions, the Delray Beach Garlic Fest indulges in all manner of creative uses of the fragrant bulb. This past weekend, the 14th annual Garlic Fest in downtown Delray…
Like most issues in our labyrinthian modern lives, the concept of eating locally can be a lot more complicated than it looks. From a lack of local farms to dubious sourcing by supermarkets, it can be tough for consumers to make the right decisions, even with the best of intentions…
Sweetwater Executive Chef Alberto Diaz has always enjoyed cooking. Originally from Puerto Rico, he was always looking to perfect his craft at home, preparing standard Latin cuisine for his family.”I was always trying to make the perfect mofongo, the best braised pork shoulder, or the quinitessential rice and beans,” Diaz…
In a fantasy existence, snagging primo — yet somehow affordable — reservations at a classy restaurant on Valentine’s Day would be a cinch. Or maybe in this magical land, Valentine’s Day wouldn’t even exist. Alas, here in the very real world of overbooked dining rooms and — let’s be honest…
Home town contestant Sarah Schiear was on fire both literally and figuratively on the first day of full-blown competition on ABC’s The Taste.The home cook and blogger, who hails from Fort Lauerdale, managed to make two great dishes in-between setting fires in the kitchen. Schiear, who is on Ludo Lefebvre’s…
The 16th annual New Times Beerfest is coming to Esplanade Park in downtown Fort Lauderdale on April 6 and it’s not too early to plan — you have heard of the early bird getting the worm, haven’t you? This time, the “worm” happens to be $15 of your hard-earned cash…
Gyros, souvlaki, tyropita, fried cheese, dolmades, stuffed grape leaves. And ouzo — how could we forget the ouzo! All that’s left to say: Opa!This weekend, celebrate the 3rd annual Flavors of Greece, Fort Lauderdale’s first Greek food and drink tasting event organized by St. Demetrios Church. The festival will run February…
We are known across the world as the ultimate multitaskers. We eat while working. We eat while watching TV. We even have an entire industry catering to those who want to eat while driving. So it should come as no surprise that one of the newest trends in dining would…
Lately, it seems like every other day there is a new place opening up in Hollywood. For years, the city was known more for French Canadian snowbirds than anything new and exciting. Obviously, that’s starting to change. Cue Inedit, Hollywood’s newest Spanish spot. Derived from the Spanish word inedito — something…
Can you smell it? The weekend is almost here, and with it comes a mini avalanche of special food and drink events in Broward and Palm Beach counties (not the least of which is the three-day Garlic Fest in Delray Beach). While your friends up north are digging out from…
If neon orange isn’t your color, maybe plaid is more your thing? If so, meet the Kilt Girls from The Tilted Kilt. These babes, dressed in a innocent-Scottish-schoolgirl-turns-naughty-vixen uniform, want to serve you beer and big-arse burgers…and they are coming to Hallandale.The restaurant chain, based in Arizona, is opening its…
Pinche Taqueria, the Wilton Manors outpost of a New York City Mexican restaurant, has closed just shy of its one-year anniversary. It “was not making enough money to support the business in this area,” Stephanie Lee, who ran the Wilton Manors restaurant, wrote in an e-mail. “There will be more…
Aloha, South Florida. This June Fort Lauderdale’s Mai Kai will once again be hosting the annual Polynesian pop-lovers paradise, The Hukilau. This year marks the 13th annual Hukilau, a four-day tiki fest that draws all manner of tikiphiles from across the globe to kick back and revel in all that retro…
Once upon a time, there was a bar. Said bar sat in a nondescript strip mall in a semi-suburban neighborhood, its door guarded by burly bouncers in cowboy hats. It was home to a mechanical bull, line dancing lessons and lots of camo. And in what far away land did…
The heart and the stomach are inextricably linked, and in no way is this more evident than with the mad dash for Valentine’s Day reservations. The National Restaurant Association estimates that each year, about 70 million Americans mark the holiday in a restaurant. Here’s our guide to Valentine’s Day options…
This Valentine’s Day forget the heart shaped box full of bon bons and get a sweet treat that you know everyone will actually love — a dozen Krispy Kreme doughnuts all dressed up for the special day.The doughnut bakery that drives us wild whenever their”hot now” light is turned on,…
For many of us, a bottle of your finest two buck Chuck will do the trick. For many others, its just not going to cut it. Luckily for the wine snobs of the world, there are people who painstakingly sip, spit, and evaluate wines to find the ones that are…
Things started really heating up on The Taste, the new ABC cooking competition that has professional chefs and home cooks competing against each other in teams. The first two episodes dragged in much the same way American Idol’s audition pieces do. But, at least that show has singing — good,…
According to the National Restaurant Consultants, “The driving theme of 2013 will continue to be ‘local’ or ‘made from scratch.'” Why? Aside from the fact that is obviously tastes better, the trend has tapped into some tenets of the ever-increasing Slow Foods Movement. Last week, we looked at the Grove’s hand-crafted…
